Hundreds of prisoners at the Treblinka death camp rose up against their captors.
The shot was understood by Camp 2 prisoners as the signal to start their revolt, which occurred about an hour before the official plan was supposed to be set in motion. According to several sources, Dr. Gibbs says, Bloch happens to get into a conversation with a guard who is standing next to a well. “When the signal is heard, [Bloch] tosses the man down the well and takes his rifle in the process.
According to Dr. Gibbs’s research, two more transports arrived at Treblinka in late August, but the wood camp buildings were so damaged — even while the brick gas chamber was still intact — and the prisoner workforce so depleted that the camp soon ceased operations. “All the way up to the point where Treblinka closes, it has murdered more people than Auschwitz. Auschwitz does not outstrip [Treblinka's] total of people murdered until the last six months of its operation when Hungary's Jews are sent to Auschwitz. Just as easily, you could consider the idea that [those prisoners] might have been sent to a still-open Treblinka,” says Dr. Gibbs, where they would almost certainly have been executed on arrival.
There was also a spiritually uplifting element, which may have saved lives or at least inspired hope. “You do not get all the way to…helping steal a key to the armory without friends supporting you mentally, physically, and spiritually in the camp and making you think life is worth it in this hellish place. That there is a point and purpose to enduring this a day longer,” Dr. Gibbs says. He adds that survivors testified that once they had a good plan to revolt, suicides at the camp stopped.
“[Some of the male survivors] erase women from the camps, so that they don't have to talk about sexual or sexualized violence,” says Dr. Gibbs. “The record of crimes includes this being a place of an incredible amount of sexual violence of just about every stripe that you can think of. From what some historians have called sex for barter or instrumental sex, kind of the
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